Adding upstream version 1.34.4.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>

plugins/serializers/registry.go

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+package serializers
+
+import "github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+
+// Creator is the function to create a new serializer
+type Creator func() telegraf.Serializer
+
+// Serializers contains the registry of all known serializers (following the new style)
+var Serializers = make(map[string]Creator)
+
+// Add adds a serializer to the registry. Usually this function is called in the plugin's init function
+func Add(name string, creator Creator) {
+	Serializers[name] = creator
+}